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posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 11:35pm on 29/08/2011 under , ,
I'm sorry. That was terrible.

I wonder why it is that, during the week I had no classes and very little work, I made little progress whatsoever on the many nonessential fandom- and internet-related tasks I had in mind, and now that I'm taking Organic Chemistry and have increased work hours coming up (with the pending Fall and Holiday seasons) all I can think about is "hey I really should write/plot out my original fiction for once/actually do shit with the comms I mod/reply to that professor who liked me/send those photos to my old entomology professor/write/type up that big post about (cultural appropriation and music/racial divides and music/crap I found while cleaning my room/why people keep reviewing A Serbian Film when they know it's horrible going in/whether I should study bugs for a living) that I keep meaning to.

At least I spent several days that week cleaning my room? So I got some real-world stuff done, anyway. And Organic doesn't look nearly as intimidating now that I know I got a B in regular Chem. And I've gotten my act together to start applying for assistant jobs at Discovery Channel and National Geographic, because no less that three people (one of whom is my mother's professor, and who has never met me) have recommended I start looking for work there, so I figure maybe this is a sign or something. Fingers crossed.

And it is once again late and bedtime. Don't want to be tired in class.
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posted by [identity profile] ivy-chan.livejournal.com at 04:00pm on 30/08/2011
Plotting out original fiction is seriously hard, it almost gives me respect for even mediocre/awful writers (like Stephanie Meyer) for being able to plot out and write novels.
 
posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 03:22am on 02/09/2011
I have all these things I want to happen and plot points that I want to explain, but I have no idea how to string them together into a coherent story instead of "and then characters went from point A to point B and learned X while on their way to C". Why don't those "How to Write Fiction" guides tell you anything about that?

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